Oil drilling opponents are planning to converge on Southwest Florida beaches this weekend for Hands Across the Sand.
Events start at 11 a.m. on Saturday at Lowerdermilk Park in Naples, the Pier at Times Square on Fort Myers Beach and Lighthouse Beach on Sanibel Island.
Participants are asked to join hands for 15 minutes at 12 noon, forming lines in the sand against oil drilling in coastal waters and in favor of clean energy.
Similar events are planned at beaches all over the nation, and even around the world, but has their roots in Florida.
A Florida Panhandle restaurant owner founded Hands Across the Sand to protest state and federal proposals to lift the oil drilling ban off Florida.
Some 10,000 Floridians representing 60 towns and cities and more than 90 beaches participated in a statewide event in February 2010.
Hands Across the Sand went worldwide with an event last June after the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
This year, organizers are trying to collect 700,000 petition signatures to get a constitutional amendment on the 2012 ballot to ban oil drilling in Florida’s state waters.
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